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Got a dilemma...

OK, just left school, spent life savings on a new system, got a job, now I have some money.

My question is: Keep my GF2 MX or upgrade?

My budget could stretch to a GF3, but that'd take 2 months. I can get a Asus GTS for £118. Kyro 2s look good, but they are not up to the performance of a GTS. I would consider a Radeon, but how good are VE versions?

On the other hand, I could wait for a while until GF3s come down in price, or Radeon 2 comes out. I wouldn't mind using the good old MX for a while longer.

the low end Radeons like the VE are nothing special, in fact I think they are slower than your Mx, though I'm not sure of that.

You can get a GTS for less than £118 if you don't mind what make it is, can't remember where I saw it but I found one on the net for £102.

To be honist I'd stick with the MX for now, there isn't really anything out there which will give you enough extra power to be worth the upgrade, not until the GF3's come down in price a bit anyway. I intend to wait for Radeon II and Kyro III before I upgrade my MX.

In the mean time you might try overclocking it, I have taken my Herc Prophet IIMX to 180 core, 220 Memory and it flys like the wind (about 2650 in 3DMark 2K1). I'm gonna get some proper cooling for it and see what I can get.

I just asked a similar question a couple of days ago... I believe the people here are right. For the time there aren't really any games that require the gf3 anyhow. Mise well stick with the MX until you need to upgrade.